E-commerce sites and purposes

Can an e-commerce site be used for people to purchase a service rather than a product?

 

[downsouth]

I would see no reason why not, its just that the 'service' becomes the 'product' in this instance, you are still selling something

 

[Astaroth]

Ecommerce is simply selling something electronically. It can be physical or electronic goods, services, advice, information etc.

 

[iboxsecurity]

Of course it can be a service, there are many about. Follow the same basic principals of selling a product and simply adapt where needed for a service and off you go.

 

[sanjiv]

What sort of service?

 

[shopintegrator]

I also agree with all of the above.

Allowing someone to pay for the service online is just another way in which a customer can choose to pay you for the service.

If you can capture the information you need about the purchaser to be able to deliver the service to them without any additional contact, that can make for a more streamlined process.

 

[edmondscommerce]

Yes and its really easy

Magento features virtual products which are ideal for this (it wont charge shipping etc)

you can sell a mix of real products and virtual products (services, warranties, etc) on the same store.

 

[shopintegrator]

Magento features virtual products which are ideal for this (it wont charge shipping etc)

Magento is not alone here, you can also use our shopping basket solution to sell tangible goods, services and digital downloads from the same online store and only have shipping costs added for tangible deliverable goods but not for services or digital downloads, even if the order contains a mix of all three types of products.

 

[wholesalecity]

Of course can.
Nowadays there are lots of such kind of website online.
Such as SEO service, google adword service or something else.
Recently our company are looking for someone can help us with our SEO and google adword compaign.
So i contact a lot of such websites.

 

[sitedesign]

I use a Joomla based website for selling my website services; it has a plugin billing system at the back end of it which lets you create Order Forms.

Once customers complete the Order Form it then creates an account for that customer and sends them an invoice. If that customer then wants another service they just login and purchase more.

You can create unlimited different Order Forms.

If you have any questions regarding it please lat me know and Ill send you a link.

Hope this helps

David

 

[janekbar5]

Hi
I use zencart it is very simple but also powerful if once you familiar with configuration. Has special features to sell products like mp3. You can sell services without problems. It has got strong comunity support and it will run on simple shared hosting. I recomend it.